Posted by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Yesterday my father-in-law had surgery in Pittsburgh. He’s being treated for kidney cancer. He grew up in Western Pennsylvania, in a region with a lot of exposure to toxic chemicals. He and his family never smoked. I was thinking of...
Posted by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
EPA continued its progress toward regulating several high-priority toxic chemicals today with an announcement that the agency is ready and willing to use its authority to restrict or even ban chemicals that pose the greatest health risk to consumers and...
Posted by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , U.S. Law and Policy
You might think it wouldn't seem odd for members of Congress to attend a hearing of a subcommittee they sit on, but the reality is that members frequently sit on multiple committees, have overlapping hearings and other conflicts including issues...
Posted by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
In Wednesday's Washington Post, Lyndsey Layton reported on a recent study examining the impact of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), on the reproductive systems of human males (as the story notes, previous studies have been of mice and rats). The...
Posted by Daniel Rosenberg in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
Today EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced the Obama Administration's "Essential Principles for Reform of Chemicals Management Legislation," (which means TSCA reform). This is good news. EPA and the Administration have taken another step in the direction of making reform of...
Posted by Daniel Rosenberg in Health and the Environment
Recently, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Washington Post wrote stories about a leaked memo summarizing a meeting of chemical and food industry leaders, in which they discussed their strategy for a media offensive to defend the chemical Bisphenol-A (BPA)...
Posted by Daniel Rosenberg in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
This is my first blog post for NRDC, and with change in the air, it seems like a good time to be writing about what NRDC, our members, colleagues and allies hope will be a wholesale change in the way...
